Remarkable Television – makers of Pointless (BBC One) and Deal or No Deal (Channel 4) – is looking for brilliant children to spell some big words in an exciting new TV competition.
‘Spelling Star’ follows a number of children as they take on various word-based competition rounds, from speed spelling to identifying incorrectly spelled words, and clue-based questions to relay-style...
Exeter based modelling agency ‘Mosaic Model Management’ will be conducting a model search in Drake Circus shopping centre on 30th May as part of “Drake Circus Fashion LIVE”.
Drake Circus Fashion LIVE is a unique opportunity to see this season’s latest looks showcased in stylish catwalk shows.
The shows will take place around Drake Circus giving customers an exclusive chance to...
Volunteers and Council staff will be rolling up their sleeves to extend the North Cross wildflower meadow this weekend.
Building on the huge success of the wildflower display last year, this year’s display will be even bigger and better, by bringing the flowers closer to the public walking and cycling routes through North Cross. The display has also been expanded to the central...
ENGLAND and Exeter Chiefs rugby star Jack Nowell has discovered that a family member was among the soldiers who fell on the first day of the battle of the Somme and who will be commemorated in an astonishing centenary project this summer.
The 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project aims to remember all 19,240 allied soldiers who died on 1st July 1916. Artist Rob Heard has created hand-...
BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac and Huw Stephens last night announced the line-up for the BBC Introducing stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Exeter, revealing that acts including The Hunna, Emmi, Black Foxxes and Declan McKenna, will perform alongside returning acts Rosie Lowe, Blossoms, Spring King and Izzy Bizu at Europe’s biggest free ticketed event at Powderham Castle on 28 and 29 May.
A primary school teacher and entrepreneur from Devon is aiming to impress Sir Richard Branson with her vision to provide free 'learn to read' education to the world through her app 'Fonics'.
Miss Cooper, who still teaches full time and works on developing her app Fonics in the evenings and at weekends is entering this years VOOM awards in an aim to win £50,000 in funding and a £250,000...
Thomson and First Choice are today announcing increased capacity at Exeter airport for their summer 2017 flying programme.
This includes new 10 and 11 night durations to Lanzarote as well as an additional seasonal flight to Tenerife which gives greater choice and flexibility to holidaymakers flying from the South West.
The move to introduce new routes is part of the holiday...
The Heart of the South West LEP is running a series of free Pop-Up Business Cafés at established café venues across the area and will be coming to Exeter on 27th April at Fresha Cafe between 8am till12 o’clock.
They are informal events co-hosted with local business organisations offering one-to-one ‘no pressure, no sales pitch’ advice from volunteer business experts, White Bruce, Elm...
THE first shrouded figures in an astonishing grand-scale art installation in memory of those who fell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme have gone on sale.
Artist Rob Heard is creating 19,240 hand-stitched figurines to represent each man who died on that day, one hundred years ago, at the beginning of the notorious World War I battle.
Exeter Chiefs and England Rugby superstar Jack Nowell was among 250 guests at a special gala dinner in aid of a project to remember 19,240 Allied servicemen who lost their lives on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
This year marks 100 years since the bloodiest day in British military history and the 19240 Shrouds of the Somme project aims to bring into sharp focus the true...
